Author: Tasha Penwell
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Perseverance Should Never Be Underestimated
Will it be a career for the likes of Toyota, NASA, Virgin Galactic…who knows? But my hope is that exposure to these activities could help students shoot for the moon and if nothing else they’ll land among the stars.
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Jobs and Skills for Tomorrow
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What I find interesting is that these in demand jobs present opportunities for a wide range of of skills sets. Whether you have an interest in management, information technology, marketing, analytics, design, and more there’s a pathway and career available for the taking.
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No Code, Low Code & Honeycode
Honeycode is still in beta but if you enjoy working with tools like Excel and Access I have a feeling you’ll enjoy exploring what this tool has to offer in terms of opportunities to build quickly and bring those ideas to life.
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Learning the Skills for Your Next Job
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Now that we’ve reviewed some of the in-demand skills for today’s (and tomorrow’s) workforce, let’s review how we can gain those skills. Obviously, college is one option but thanks to the Internet and organizations like Google, AWS, Harvard University and HubSpot, it’s no longer the only option.
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Hypertext Markup Language or Hot Tomato Makes Lasagna?
New year, new students, new lessons at Logan Hocking Middle School’s Coding Club and we started with a refresher of things we learned from the Fall semester with a fun Kahoot! game. What I love about Kahoot! is that students and adults of all ages appreciate the platform for a little competition and prizes and…
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Day 2 of Developing on AWS training
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Failures are important. I remind my students of that when they struggle with understanding or completing an assignment and during our labs I kept repeating that mantra to soothe my own ego and frustration on successfully completing the lab.
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Day 1 of Developing on AWS Training
While my preference for these types of training is in person, the virtual training is in real-time with the instructor and other participants so it is easier to stay engaged during the full-day training. An added bonus (or maybe a hindrance – depends on how you look at it) is the company of dogs looking…
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Round Two to Awesome Web Sh*t
As I start on this journey to learning and understanding feel free to join me on the Facebook Page Awesome Web Sh*t and follow along this blog to share and join in the fun of learning about Amazon Web Services and all the “awesome web shit” that we can do with it.
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Course: Teach Kids To Read
We have developed a teacher training curriculum and were able to host training sessions for teachers and educational personnel about new techniques of teaching how to read. We believe this will empower teachers in classrooms to teach more effectively.
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School Bus Initiative
The focus of our last quarter has been working with local groups to improve bus networks. We believe that it is vital to provide transportation options for children living in rural areas. Thanks to our donors we were able to fund 50 buses and 200 cars that transport children to schools all around the globe.